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Official Sculptor of Hockey Club Montreal Canadiens

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 19, 1961. Eldest of three children, a lawyer by profession and father a writer and mother teaching drama. Studied at the Collège Bourget in Rigaud and Jean-de-Brébeuf Montréal.Voyage in Central America in 1979 for two months. Resides in Canmore, Alberta Province, 1983-1985. Resides in Vancouver, Province of British Columbia, 1986-1990. Self-taught artist since 1986. Collaborates in the manufacture of wall Pavilion British Columbia as well as the Canada Pavilion at the Universal Exhibition in Vancouver in 1986. Won the "Palme Bronze" and exhibited his work at the Biennale de Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France, in 1993. Various exhibitions Solos and groups in private galleries, art centers and museums in Canada and the United States since 1986.
 

Analysis

Realism to the social satire

Face to disorder, overconsumption, the uncertainty of contemporary society, AJ Marc Fortier questions, sometimes with irony and sarcasm, that we are actors. For him, all the elements of the world, beings as well as the objects are animated by the same life and face in an apparently irrational order: faces are both human and robots, objects both animate and inert . Paintings and sculptures SHIFT Fortier affirm the continuity and permanence of human attitudes: the snobbery and elitism, envy and pride, boredom, lies and loneliness.

Our social and intellectual structure operates as if there was no place for such testimony, yet it is this testimony that attracted me from the beginning, in the work of Marc AJ Fortier. Not that undermines or opposes our new realities, making us fear a regression to previous states or at least different, but rather that it forces our eyes to look at these realities. Iconography, combined with an occupation based on knowledge and demanding control of pictorial and sculptural art, seems to ignore the impact of formal concepts underlying modern art and renders, in fact, this production even more suspicious.

Fortier's work does not stop at the surface of the material: it also questions the support of the work, whether canvas, wood or earth. Marc Fortier AJ disarticulates frame and matter, "deconstructed" to better take ownership. In his painting, he reconstructs for each of his paintings, an asymmetrical frame, thus breaking with the stability, the apparent immutability of support. This work of "deconstruction" of the frame reinforces the ironic questioning our attitudes and acts as a metaphor for real. Nothing is perfect to the point that it warping, no bias: the things of everyday life move to the rhythm of their players and thus will support, supervision of these things. Fortier's approach leads us to reflect on the action and presentation, their appearances.

Text by Marie-Andrée Brière, art historian and museum expert

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Official Sculptor of Hockey Club Montreal Canadiens

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 19, 1961. Eldest of three children, a lawyer by profession and father a writer and mother teaching drama. Studied at the Collège Bourget in Rigaud and Jean-de-Brébeuf Montréal.Voyage in Central America in 1979 for two months. Resides in Canmore, Alberta Province, 1983-1985. Resides in Vancouver, Province of British Columbia, 1986-1990. Self-taught artist since 1986. Collaborates in the manufacture of wall Pavilion British Columbia as well as the Canada Pavilion at the Universal Exhibition in Vancouver in 1986. Won the "Palme Bronze" and exhibited his work at the Biennale de Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France, in 1993. Various exhibitions Solos and groups in private galleries, art centers and museums in Canada and the United States since 1986.
 

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